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Ridgefield alleged bank robbers arraigned

John Pirro
| on February 4, 2014

DANBURY -- Surveillance footage from a camera at a nearby business was instrumental in helping Ridgefield police arrest two men and charge them with robbing a Danbury Road bank last month, according to arrest warrant affidavits made public when the pair were arraigned in state Superior Court Tuesday.

Andrew Rendflash, 25, of Oxford, and David Stiber, 35, of Derby, were taken into custody Monday after the video provided investigators with the registration number of the Jeep the two men allegedly used as a getaway car after allegedly stealing $6,000 from First Niagara Bank on Jan. 24.

Rendflash, police said, was the man who entered the bank and told a teller, "This is a robbery. This isn't a joke. Don't touch the alarm," according to the affidavit.

Stiber was waiting in a nearby parking lot in the Jeep, which was registered to his wife, police said.

Stiber initially told police he had only given a friend from Waterbury, whose last name he didn't know, a ride to the bank and dropped him off outside, police said in the affidavit. But he later admitted that the friend was Rendflash, who he claimed got out of the Jeep to "take a leak," then got in about three minutes later in an agitated state and told him to get going, police said.

Rendflash remains in custody in lieu of $100,000 bond pending a March 3 court appearance on charges of third-degree robbery, conspiracy and third-degree larceny.

Stiber, who was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and accessory to robbery, was released on $25,000 bond, also for a March 3 court date.